Police Teach Santri At Al Ghifari Islamic Boarding School Kulon Progo So They Are Not Exposed To Radical Understanding

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JAKARTA - The police visited the Al Ghifari Islamic Boarding School in Sidorejo Village, Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta. The police want to socialize counter-radicals so that the students here are not exposed to radical ideas.

The Head of the Opinion and Evaluation Sub-division of the Public Information Bureau of Public Relations of the Police, AKBP Erlan Munaji, explained that this socialization was to provide knowledge and education on how to fortify oneself so as not to be exposed to radical ideas.

"This radical idea has begun to spread not only among adults, but also among young people, so we are obliged to provide views and knowledge so that we are not exposed to radical ideas with methods that are currently advanced," Erlan said, Wednesday, April 20.

The police chose the Al Ghifari Islamic Boarding School because it has quite a lot of students and is one of the best Islamic boarding schools in Kulon Progo. He hopes to provide understanding to the students at this Islamic boarding school and other Islamic boarding schools in Kulon Progo.

"This outreach is a program of the National Police Public Relations Division to provide counter-radical knowledge launched by the President in order to prevent radical ideas that have targeted young people," Erlan explained as quoted by Antara.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Al Ghifari Kulon Progo Islamic Boarding School, Sandiman Nur Hadi Widodo, said that the counter-radical socialization carried out by the Police Public Relations Division was very positive and in line with Al Ghifari Islamic Boarding School.

"We really need this counter-radical socialization. We hope not only at Al Ghifari Islamic Boarding School, but also other Islamic boarding schools in Kulon Progo," he said.

He hopes that students who are studying at Al Ghifari Islamic Boarding School are able to understand what the speaker Muhammad Nasir Abbas said so that they don't fall into radicalism or other ideas that contradict the government.

"We ourselves routinely provide an understanding of radical understanding and ask them not to be exposed to this understanding," he said.